Most people have a strong and natural desire to have their own children. In Church teaching the gift of a child is one of the great goods of marriage. However, about one in seven couples have difficulty conceiving or carrying a baby to term and discovering this in your own life can be devastating.
Infertility is a tragedy for women and for men who want to become mothers and fathers and grandparents. There was a time when couples lived with this tragedy and accepted that having their own child was not meant to be. But the development of IVF technology in the 1970s opened up the possibility of bypassing the causes of infertility and going straight to pregnancy. With a lot of luck.
